Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Federal NDP leadership hopefuls are debating each other in Victoria on Wednesday. Here’s a look at some key figures the contenders need to be mindful of: -$5.5 million: amount of debt c...

CALGARY - Alberta’s police chiefs have agreed in principal to new rules that could mean the names of homicide victims are withheld from the public. “There is just a lawful expectation of p...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s New Democrat government has requested an independent review of the $8.8-billion Site C dam, threatening thousands of construction jobs on what was a signature mega...

GATINEAU, Que. - The Canadian Transportation Agency has ordered Air Transat to explain the circumstances surrounding a delay of two of its flights, including one in which a plane spent six hours on th...

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba judge had harsh words Wednesday as he asked why no one stepped in to prevent the lengthy neglect and abuse that left a 21-month-old girl malnourished, suffering from untreated in...

TORONTO - A bill of rights for Canadian travellers would prevent problems like those experienced by Air Transat passengers forced to withstand uncomfortably warm conditions on a flight stuck on an Ott...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Aug. 2 --- CENSUS 2016: SINGLE, SAME-SEX AND CHILDLESS: Couples without kids are outpacing their procreating counterparts, same-sex relationships are bloss...

VICTORIA - An insurance company that refused to pay for a British Columbia man’s emergency heart surgery has been ordered by a B.C. Supreme Court judge in Victoria to cover the US$180,000 bill. ...

VANCOUVER - The typical price of a home in Metro Vancouver surpassed $1 million for the first time last July, the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver said on the one-year anniversary of British Col...

HALIFAX - Driving an electric car along Canada’s rugged East Coast is about to get a lot easier. Electric utilities in both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are moving ahead with plans to install m...